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Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1863. 1st Edition. vi+[2]+256pp. 12mo. Publisher's paneled green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Upper right corner of front flyleaf torn away, hinges broken, corners bumped, crown frayed, a good to VG copy that is externally quite pleasing in appearance. Norman Catalog 773. Weight: 9.9 ounces = 283 grams. Size: 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches = 19 x 12 x 1.5cm. With the tiny pencil signature on the verso of the title-page "Volkmann // g d V." With the rubber stamp to the title-page of C. N. Starcke, with the latter's ink ownership inscription to the flyleaf dated 29. Januar 87. Light penciling to the first three chapters, probably by Volkmann. A prominent German physiologist and philosopher, Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801-1877) was Fechner's brother-in-law and intimate friend. Professor at the University of Halle from about 1843, Volkmann made contributions to the physiology of the nervous system and physiological optics. In 1842 he showed that sympathetic nerves were largely made up of medullated fibers arising from sympathetic & spinal ganglia. He also opposed materialism and gave speeches against the materialist assumption of identity between body & mind. A Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Carl Nicolai Starcke (1858-1926) was a sociologist of some note. He seems to have read this just at the time he was writing his Die primitive Familie in ihrer Entstehung und Entwickelung (Brockhaus, 1888), translated into English in 1889 as The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development. Binding: HB.

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